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Houston Hatty .Ijouwtai
TUESDAY,
OCTOBER 10, 2006
The Home Journal’s
SANDLOT
OH DECK
High school
Softball
Today
■ Warner Robins at Houston
County, 6 p.m.
Perry at regionals in Jackson,
teams and times to be deter
mined
Wednesday
■ Perry at regionals in Jackson,
teams and times to be deter
mined
Thursday
■ Perry at regionals in Jackson,
teams and times to be deter
mined
■ Houston County at Tift County,
5:30 p.m.
Saturday
■ GISA state Final Four at
Southern Pines Softball Complex:
Westfield versus Tattnall (best
of-three), 10 a.m. (game 1)
High school
Cross country
Wednesday
■ Northside at Upson-Lee, time
to be determined
Saturday
■ Coach’s Cup, hosted by
Warner Robins, 10 a.m. at Pearl
Stephens Elementary School
High school
Volleyball
Today
■ Perry at Mary Persons (versus
it and Ola), 5 p.m.
Houston County at Peachtree,
time to be determined
Friday
■ Houston County at Union
Grove for Area tournament,
teams and times to be deter
mined
Saturday
■ Houston County at Union
Grove for Area tournament,
teams and times to be deter
mined
High school
Football
Friday
■ Westfield at First Presbyterian
Day, 8 p.m.
■ Warner Robins at Valdosta,
8 p.m.
■ Perry at West Laurens, 7:30
p.m.
■ Northside at Baldwin, 7:30
p.m.
■ Colquitt at Houston County,
7:30 p.m.
IN BRIEF
Demons advance tickets
to go on sale
Tickets for Warner Robins’
football game at Valdosta will
be on sale Wednesday and
Thursday in the office of the
school from 8 a.m.-4 p.m.
Student tickets are $5 and all
adult tickets are reserved seats
and costs SB.
WR Rec to begin
basketball registration
The Warner Robins Recreation
Department will begin basketball
registration Oct. 21. It will be
held from 8 a.m.-1 p.m. at the
department's office off Watson
Blvd. Fees are as follows: $25
for city residents, SSO for county
residents and SBS for out of
county residents.
Participants must be at least
5 by Dec. 31 in order to partici
pate in the basketball program.
Registration will continue until
filled, during regular business
hours, 8 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday-
Friday. In addition, coaches are
also needed. Call 929-1916 for
more information.
Registration begins for
Upward Basketball
Registration has begun for the
2006-2007 Upward Basketball
season. The cost per child is
$75. Where you sign up and
register is where you practice
and play the games.
You may register at the follow
ing locations in Warner Robins:
Second Baptist at 2504 Moody
Rd (923-7101), Friendship
Baptist at 1322 Feagin Mill
Rd. (953-9509) or Shirley Hills
Baptist at 615 Corder Rd. (923-
5571).
HoCo beats Morrow, earns second seed
Special to the Journal
Houston County’s volley
ball squad hosted its final
home match of the season
Thursday in front of the
largest crowd of the season.
The night started with
the County Junior Varsity
Championship between
Warner Robins and Houston
County, with the JV Lady
Bears claiming the trophy in
two games.
The final match of the
evening was between the
Lady Bears and the Lady
Mustangs of Morrow.
In between was a match
between Morrow and Warner
Robins and the Lady Bear’s
Senior Night Recognition
of their four senior cap
tains: Jennifer Doebereiner,
Nicole Williams, Samantha
Moncada and Brittany
Pierce.
The varsity match was
also the final Area 2-AAAAA
of the season for Houston
County and determined the
second and third seed for the
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Westfield pitcher Kelsey Gilliam delivers to the plate against Stratford Saturday at the Southern Pines Softball
Complex in Dublin, and in the opening round of the GISA state tournament.
Westfield takes 2'of'3 from Stratford to advance
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area tournament.
Those honors, being the
second seed, went to Houston
County as it picked up its
32nd win of the season in
what head coach Tony Jones
called: “quite dramatic sash
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ion.
The match went the full
three games with the Lady
Bears winning the first 25-
21, dropping the second 25-
19 and then winning the
third 25-18.
“The Lady Bears were
inspired by the students
who came to help cheer the
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Final Four bound
Sports
Match 1 -
Houston County
25, Morrow 21
Match 2
-Morrow 25,
Houston County
19
Match 3-
Houston County
25, Morrow 18
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Houston County’s Devon Preston makes a kill in the Lady Bears' win over Morrow
Thursday at Houston County.
By DON MONCRIEF
Journal Sports Editor
DUBLIN - Westfield
beat Stratford two out of
three games Saturday to
earn a Final Four berth in
the Georgia Independent
School Association’s state
softball playoffs.
The Lady Hornets beat
the Lady Eagles 6-5 in
game 1, were shut out 2-0
in game 2 but then came
roaring back in game 3
with a 5-0 win.
Westfield will now play
Tattnall, a team it beat 2-1
during the regular season,
in another best two-out-of
three series. That is slated
for Saturday with the first
pitch to be thrown at 10
a.m. at Southern Pines
Complex in Dublin.
As far as game 1 this past
Saturday, Stratford started
off with a bang, scoring
all five of its runs - on
only two hits - in the first
inning.
The Lady Hornets, how
ever, were up to the task.
They scored three runs in
the first and their other
trio in the fourth.
The first three came
without the aid of a hit but
the others were the result
of singles by Daryl Ann
Thompson and Kelsey
Gilliam,
along with
sacrific
es from
Audrey
Clearman
and
Hannah
Jones.
In all
Stratford
had six hits,
Westfield
five, but
Gilliam,
who pitched
all three
games,
WESTFIELD
HORNETS
GISA state
tournament
Game 1:
Westfield
6, Stratford
5; Game 2:
Stratford 2,
Westfield
0: Game 3:
Westfield 5,
Stratford 0
also struck out eight Lady
Eagles.
If the Lady Hornets
could have just gotten one
or more clutch hits - early,
in particular - in game 2,
there may not have been a
game 3.
Westfield left two run
ners in scoring position
in the first inning, one in
the second and one in the
fourth - the last two the
leadoff hitter.
Stratford mirrored that
somewhat with two run
ners on in the second, one
reaching in the third and
another in the fourth.
The damage, however,
came in the sixth when
See ADVANCE, page^B
SECTION
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Georgia game!
turns into a!
very bad joke
Call me the type;
who tries to see the;
humor in anything. ;
Did you hear about the;
93,000 people who showed;
up to Sanford Stadiurq;
expectingsome Southeastern;
Conference football action?;
A Mountain West game,
broke out.
Hah, hah. Little joke. Real!
little. Microscopic, in fact. !
Before
Saturday’s
fiasco in
Athens, the
University
of Georgia
led all of
NCAA
Division I-
A football
in few
est points
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Matthew Brown
Journal Sports Writer
allowed per game. With frac-|
tions involved, opponents!
were only getting some-;
where between a touchdown;
and a touchdown-plus-PAT;
against the Bulldogs. It’s a;
statistic mistakenly referred;
to as scoring defense.
But not every point scored;
in a football game goes'
against a defensive unit, the;
11 players who line up for*
every snap from scrimmage.;
There are the interceptions
and fumbles recovered and
returned to the opposite end
zone.
There are safeties, and;
there are certain special
teams plays like - if you
did see the game Saturday
- punts blocked in the
end zone and fallen on by
See GAME, page 3B
WR, NS contend
at Westover j
Special to the Journal
Warner Robins and
Northside traveled and
competed in the Westover
Invitational Cross Country
Meet Saturday in Albany.
It was a course Warner
Robins head cross country
coach David Erpelding said
was “probably the fastest
course in Georgia,” .adding!
“as (finishing) times indi-i
cate and it builds confidence
in the runners.”
“It was probably the most
competitive meet we have
been to so far,” he said!
“And I feel that we did
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